Microsoft is using a new patch to block sending data via “raw sockets”, a technique the security community uses to analyse otherwise inaccessible data, prompting one expert to e-mail his peers: “Pick ...

A TCP/IP socket. The "raw" refers to the socket itself where one might program directly to the socket without going through the TCP/IP programming interface. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

'a piece of malware dubbed "Chaos" is infecting poorly secured systems by guessing weak passwords' Is that it, this is what currently passes for technology analysis. The year 2000 is calling and wants ...